Re: case sensitivity and the OM

On 12/17/2012 06:06 PM, L. David Baron wrote:
> On Monday 2012-12-17 16:37 -0800, John Daggett wrote:
>> >From fantasai's comments regarding case sensitivity on WG list:
>>
>>> 6. If you discuss case-sensitivity, here are my positions:
>>>
>>>  a. I am ok with ASCII-insensitivity if it is just
>>>     about matching.
>>>
>>>  b. I object to ASCII-folding if this is used anywhere
>>>     in the OM output as a normalization of author input.
>>>
>>>     In other words, the author must be able to pretend,
>>>     as long as unique idents in his mind are
>>>     case-insensitively unique, that CSS is
>>>     case-sensitive, and have that Just Work.
>
> I disagree with fantasai's second objection.  I think there are many
> reasons to want author input to be normalized, such as:

To clarify, I don't have a problem with this for CSS-defined
identifiers, but I do have a problem with this for user-defined
idents. ASCII lowercasing of French or Spanish or Norwegian is
really weird and authors shouldn't be exposed to it when they're
creating their own identifiers.

~fantasai

Received on Tuesday, 25 December 2012 02:25:13 UTC